Do you think users shouldn't get to have user agents or that "content farm ads scaffold" as a business model has a right to be viable? Forcing users to reward either stance seems unsustainable.
> Do you think users shouldn't get to have user agents or that "content farm ads scaffold" as a business model has a right to be viable?
Users should get to have authenticated, anonymous proxy user agents. Because companies like Perplexity just ignore `robots.txt`, maybe something like Private Access Tokens (PATs) with a new class for autonomous agents could be a solution for this.
By "content farm ads scaffold", I'm not sure if you had Perplexity and their ads business in mind, or those crappy little single-serving garbage sites. In any case, they shouldn't be treated differently. I have no problem with the business model, other than that the scam only works because it's currently trivial to parasitically strip-mine and monetize other people's IP.
